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<td class="v">78:1</td>
<td>Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.</td>
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<td class="v">78:2</td>
<td>I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:</td>
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<td class="v">78:3</td>
<td>Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.</td>
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<td class="v">78:4</td>
<td>We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.</td>
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<td class="v">78:5</td>
<td>For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:</td>
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<td class="v">78:6</td>
<td>That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:</td>
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<td class="v">78:7</td>
<td>That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:</td>
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<td class="v">78:8</td>
<td>And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.</td>
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<td class="v">78:9</td>
<td>The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.</td>
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<td class="v">78:10</td>
<td>They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;</td>
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<td class="v">78:11</td>
<td>And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.</td>
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<td class="v">78:12</td>
<td>Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.</td>
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<td class="v">78:13</td>
<td>He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.</td>
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<td class="v">78:14</td>
<td>In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.</td>
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<td class="v">78:15</td>
<td>He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.</td>
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<td class="v">78:16</td>
<td>He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.</td>
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<td class="v">78:17</td>
<td>And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.</td>
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<td class="v">78:18</td>
<td>And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.</td>
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<td class="v">78:19</td>
<td>Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?</td>
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<td class="v">78:20</td>
<td>Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?</td>
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<td class="v">78:21</td>
<td>Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;</td>
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<td class="v">78:22</td>
<td>Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:</td>
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<td class="v">78:23</td>
<td>Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,</td>
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<td class="v">78:24</td>
<td>And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.</td>
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<td class="v">78:25</td>
<td>Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.</td>
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<td class="v">78:26</td>
<td>He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.</td>
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<td class="v">78:27</td>
<td>He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:</td>
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<td class="v">78:28</td>
<td>And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.</td>
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<td class="v">78:29</td>
<td>So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;</td>
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<td class="v">78:30</td>
<td>They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,</td>
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<td class="v">78:31</td>
<td>The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">78:32</td>
<td>For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.</td>
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<td class="v">78:33</td>
<td>Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.</td>
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<td class="v">78:34</td>
<td>When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.</td>
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<td class="v">78:35</td>
<td>And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.</td>
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<td class="v">78:36</td>
<td>Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.</td>
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<td class="v">78:37</td>
<td>For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.</td>
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<td class="v">78:38</td>
<td>But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.</td>
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<td class="v">78:39</td>
<td>For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.</td>
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<td class="v">78:40</td>
<td>How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!</td>
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<td class="v">78:41</td>
<td>Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">78:42</td>
<td>They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.</td>
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<td class="v">78:43</td>
<td>How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:</td>
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<td class="v">78:44</td>
<td>And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.</td>
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<td class="v">78:45</td>
<td>He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.</td>
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<td class="v">78:46</td>
<td>He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.</td>
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<td class="v">78:47</td>
<td>He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.</td>
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<td class="v">78:48</td>
<td>He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.</td>
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<td class="v">78:49</td>
<td>He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.</td>
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<td class="v">78:50</td>
<td>He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;</td>
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<td class="v">78:51</td>
<td>And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:</td>
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<td class="v">78:52</td>
<td>But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.</td>
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<td class="v">78:53</td>
<td>And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.</td>
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<td class="v">78:54</td>
<td>And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.</td>
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<td class="v">78:55</td>
<td>He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.</td>
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<td class="v">78:56</td>
<td>Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:</td>
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<td class="v">78:57</td>
<td>But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.</td>
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<td class="v">78:58</td>
<td>For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.</td>
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<td class="v">78:59</td>
<td>When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:</td>
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<td class="v">78:60</td>
<td>So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;</td>
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<td class="v">78:61</td>
<td>And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.</td>
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<td class="v">78:62</td>
<td>He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.</td>
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<td class="v">78:63</td>
<td>The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.</td>
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<td class="v">78:64</td>
<td>Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.</td>
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<td class="v">78:65</td>
<td>Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.</td>
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<td class="v">78:66</td>
<td>And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.</td>
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<td class="v">78:67</td>
<td>Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:</td>
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<td class="v">78:68</td>
<td>But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.</td>
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<td class="v">78:69</td>
<td>And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.</td>
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<td class="v">78:70</td>
<td>He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:</td>
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<td class="v">78:71</td>
<td>From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.</td>
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<td class="v">78:72</td>
<td>So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.</td>
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